Agent Engram wrote:
i am on fedora
thanks for this piece of information. afaik, there are even gem packages in the CCRMA-repositories.
here is what about said about build-essential:
Definition: *build-essential*: Informational list of build-essential packages If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this package. Moreover this package is not required for building Debian packages. This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for building Debian packages.
what you do need is a c++-compiler. this answers your question "who uses g++, i dont even know how to get it.": g++ is _the_ gnu c++ compiler. almost everyone who wants to compile C++ on linux (and os-x, btw) uses it. since Gem is written in C++ (as opposed to Pd, which is written in C), you need g++.
is gem dependent on debian?
no, not at all. it is just that most people (including me) are using (a) debian (flavour, like ubuntu); that's why there is a bias in the documentation.
since i don't know fedora so much, i will give you generic instructions:
- try to use an interactive (graphical or text-based; whatever you
prefer) package-manager frontend, where you can search for packages and select them. search for "g++" and see what it gives you.
- ask the mother of all evil, google, what it gives you with "fedora
g++"; at least here the first four hits deal exactly with your problem
btw, you will need _a lot_ of other packages as well, if you want to have fun with Gem. they should be listed in some README.linux (read through the debian section; the packages on fedora should be named similar).
mfg.asdr IOhannes